Australian Lucy Chaffer has taken silver in the Skeleton World Cup race in Canada, finishing less than two tenths of a second behind local hero Melissa Hollingsworth.
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) scholarship holder was second fastest on...

The Tour of Qatar has lost one of its marquee names after Germany’s Andre Greipel pulled out of the race due to illness Thursday.
Greipel, who claimed his maiden Tour de France stage win last year, has enjoyed a blistering start to the season...

Tour de France champion Cadel Evans will open his new season at the Mallorca Challenge, starting Sunday.
The BMC rider will be joined by Andy and Frank Schleck with three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador expected to only compete on the...

Tour de France champion Cadel Evans will open his new season at the Mallorca Challenge, starting Sunday.
The BMC rider will be joined by Andy and Frank Schleck with three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador expected to only compete on the...

Tour de France champion Cadel Evans has been handed a potential duel with former three-time champion Alberto Contador when the pair line up for the Tirreno-Adriatico race in March.
Evans (BMC) won the Italian stage race known as the ‘Race of...

World madison champions Cameron Meyer and Leigh Howard have become the first Australian cyclists since 1988 to win the famous Berlin Six Day event.
Meyer and Howard started the final night of the track event in fifth place, but gained a lap and...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will announce their verdict on three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador’s doping case on February 6, the organisation said on Monday.
A verdict was initially set for mid-January, but CAS opted...

This time four years ago, six months out from the Beijing Olympics, Anna Meares had just fractured her neck, dislocated a shoulder and was millimetres away from needing support to breathe for the rest of her life.
A remarkable recovery from the race...

Australian track cycling ace Anna Meares has won her 23rd senior national title, leading from start to finish in the keirin final.
Team sprint partner Kaarle McCulloch nearly caught Meares on the line with a late lunge, but the reigning keirin world...

Newly-crowned national sprint champion Alex Bird has become a double-edged weapon for the Australian track cycling program ahead of the London Olympics.
The 26-year-old ACT rider caused the upset of the Australian track titles in Adelaide when he...

Tasmanian cyclist Peter Loft has escaped with severe bruising after Saturday night’s three-rider pileup at the Australian track championships.
Loft had to be stretchered from the track at the Adelaide Superdrome after the crash in the closing...

New Australian sprint champion Alex Bird was relegated to the keirin repechage on the last day of the national track cycling championships.
The day after causing the upset of the championships, Bird finished third on Sunday in his round-one keirin...